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. 2020 Jun 12;18(3):155–164. doi: 10.1089/bio.2019.0129

Table 1.

Attribute Definitions in the Sample Donor Component

Attribute code Attribute name Allowed values Attribute description Constraints Cardinality
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-01 Sample donor ID Coded String Sample donor ID. Unique ID code of the sample donor within the sample collection/biobank Pseudonymized, alphanumeric 1
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-02 Sex List: male, female, unknown, undifferentiated Biological sex of the sample donor   1
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-03 Data categoriesa List: biological samples, survey data, imaging data, sample donor ethnicity, medical records, national registries, genealogical records, pathology records, physiological/biochemical measurements, psychological data, other The data categories from which data are available or can be linked to the sample donor. Can be several values (See Supplementary Table S1 “Example on how to tabulate list-attributes for database use” for coded items).   0 … n
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-04 Birth date yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss Birth date of the sample donor. Coding ISO8601. Can also be partial, for example, YYYY. Date of birth is required when Event date (MIABIS-EVENT-02) is used, otherwise partial date, as in birth year, can be used 0
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See additional discussion in Synchronization with MIABIS Core section.

ISO, International Organization for Standardization; MIABIS, Minimum Information About BIobank data Sharing.